After the Luming banquet was over and Jinling was over, Yang Cong couldn't wait to embark on the trip to Daming Jingshi.

This time, he was also going to stay at the post station, and this time the official document in his hand was even more awesome, because the official document was opened for him by Zhang Bangqi, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials.

Zhang Bangqi probably felt that Zou Shouyi and Zhan Ruoshui had helped Yang Cong, but he didn't say anything, and he was a little embarrassed, so as soon as Yang Cong opened his mouth, he didn't hesitate to open a dispatch document.

This guy, the Nanjing Ministry of Shangshu is also a Shangshu, Shangshu is a second-class product, and it is considered the top among the civil officials, and the post stations along the way are naturally offered to Yang Cong and his party.

Jinling is not as far away from the capital of Daming as Quanzhou Mansion from Yingtianfu, from the southern capital of Jinling to the capital of Daming is about two thousand miles, and the official road in the middle is quite good, it can be described as a horse and a flat river.

Yang Cong was burning all the way, and the capital seemed to attract him like a huge magnet, making him eager to be able to whip up his horse and run all the way over.

If it weren't for the fact that he was carrying too much gold and silver, if it weren't for the weak scholars Wang Xuan, Xue Nantang, and Li Du in his group, he would really come to an eight-hundred-mile rush and rush to the capital in three or four days.

Because he really misses Lu Ling'er so much, he hasn't seen him for more than a year, and he feels like if centuries have passed.

Of course, with a carriage in the team, it is impossible for him to run hundreds of miles a day, even if he gets up early and sleeps at night, and hurries desperately, he can run more than 100 miles a day at most, no matter how anxious he is, the horse can't run.

The group hurried in this way, lasted about half a month, and finally came to Shuntian Mansion, where the capital of Daming was located.

Along the way, although Yang Cong had no intention of appreciating the scenery on the road, he also saw some unique scenery in the north, such as endless fields and wheat growing on dry land, which are difficult to see in the south.

He also saw some worrying sights.

For example, after entering Beizhili, the farmland has become obviously dry, and even the tips of some wheat seedlings are yellow.

This is a harbinger of the Xiaoice River natural disaster, but unfortunately, people at this time do not know that they will face a terrible natural disaster, and no one will believe this kind of thing.

Also, after passing through Fengyang Mansion, the central capital, there are obviously fewer caravans on the official road, and sometimes you don't even meet one in a day.

This proves that people at this time did not know the importance of commercial development at all, the Ming Dynasty's idea of valuing agriculture over commerce was still quite serious, and the north did not have the kind of commercial atmosphere in the south, and the closer to the capital, the fewer people doing business.

However, these are all things that he can't solve now, and it's useless to see it, he can only silently put it in his heart and solve it when he has the ability in the future.

After the group entered the boundary of Shuntianfu, they ran north for about half a day, and finally arrived in the capital.

This Ming capital can be said to be the largest city in the world today, covering an area of 100,000 acres, such a city, in the future is also a big city.

However, after having Jinling's insight, Yang Cong was not as shocked as before when he saw the magnificent capital, and he just wanted to see Lu Ling'er as soon as possible, no matter how big the city was, it was a floating cloud in his eyes.

The Ming capital is still relatively tightly guarded, starting from the outer city, there are Beijing camp guards stationed to check, no matter who they are, they must go through a careful check if they want to enter the city.

Fortunately, there were six new classes for their group, and Yang Cong also had a dispatch document from the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, and the Jingying guards guarding the city did not make much trouble for them, but only warned them to put away their weapons and remember not to make trouble in the city.

Yang Cong is not familiar with the capital, and none of them have ever been to the capital, so they can only ask all the way, all the way to find the location of the Lu Mansion and the Gongyuan in the capital.

This search lasted for a long time, and it was not until it was almost dark that the group found the Lu family's mansion near Chang'an Avenue in the west of the inner city.

At first glance, Lu Mansion is that kind of big and amazing mansion, the wall alone is several miles long, and it is very close to the imperial city, and it only takes about a quarter of an hour to walk out to reach the West Chang'an Gate of the imperial city.

This may have been specially arranged by Emperor Jiajing for the Li family and the Lu family brothers and sisters to enter the palace, looking at the heavily guarded Lu family mansion, he could only sigh secretly, and then took everyone to find a place to live.

In these years, you can't visit others directly to ask if someone is at home, especially a wealthy family like the Lu family, you dare to come forward and ask directly, it's not bad if you don't get beaten.

If you want to visit a wealthy family this year, you have to submit a worship post first, wait for someone to reply, people let you go, you can go, if people don't let you go, you can't enter someone's door.

Therefore, Yang Cong could only look at the door and sigh.

It's almost night, and it's not appropriate to post a prayer, so he can only take someone to find a place to live first.

This time, he didn't plan to live in a temple, because there were not many temples in the inner city of the capital, and there were no temples near the Lu Mansion and the Gongyuan in the capital, and he also wanted to show off his wealth in order to attract the attention of some people, so he directly chartered a compound at the largest Xinglong Inn on West Chang'an Street and lived in it with great fanfare.

This guy, West Chang'an Street can be next to the imperial city, the consumption here is almost the most expensive in the entire Ming Dynasty, a compound, a few taels a day, a month is more than a hundred taels, can rent a compound in this kind of place, that is a rich and inhumane tyrant.

Yang Cong didn't just show off his wealth like this, the next morning, he walked around several century-old shops on West Chang'an Street, bought a few carriage gifts, and then pulled him to Lu Mansion and sent it in together.

Of course, he still can't enter the door of the Lu Mansion at this time, even if he gives more gifts, he has to wait for the consent of Lu Song and his wife before he can enter the door, and Lu Song is estimated to be on duty at the Jinyi Guard Yamen at this time, and he will have to wait for a reply, and it is estimated that it will be tomorrow morning at the earliest.

However, he didn't stop there, and after lunch, he began to worship again.

Although the power of Yangming's lineage in the capital is not as good as that of Jinling, there are still a few bigwigs.

For example, Nie Bao, one of the seven sons of the Yang Sect and the current right attendant of the Ministry of War, this Nie Bao is Xu Jie's mentor, Yang Cong arrived in the capital, so he naturally wanted to visit.

There is another one, who is also Wang Shouren's protégé, but probably because he is immersed in research, he has not achieved much in his career, so he is not very famous in history, but he is quite famous at this time.

This person is the current scholar Mu Konghui of the Hanlin Academy, although this bachelor of the Hanlin Academy is only a position from the fifth grade, but its influence is quite large, because this bachelor is a lecture to the emperor, that is to say, this bachelor is the emperor's teacher!

Of course, not all attendants will be regarded as real teachers by the emperor, and only if the emperor is quite satisfied with the attendants will he be called teachers.

And this Mu Konghui is one of the more satisfactory bachelors in the early stage of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing rarely treats others as teachers, but this Mu Konghui treats him as a teacher and student, that is to say, Mu Konghui can secretly guide the emperor's decision by giving a lecture to the emperor.

Such an important person has a great influence on Emperor Jiajing, which is comparable to that of a cabinet scholar, and Yang Cong naturally wants to visit it.